News The Oregonian confirmed Tuesday it will start a second newspaper in Forest Grove, a Washington County town of 22,000. As WW reported last week, the expansion means war between two of the state's largest media companies.

The new weekly paper, called the    More

Elections Last month, the Portland Development Commission resumed negotiations on two long-debated projects requiring millions in public subsidies: an office tower in Southwest Portland without a carbon f   More

News All summer, Forest Grove-based Stimson Lumber has been pouring money into an independent Republican group called the Oregon Transformation Project Political Action Committee, trying to turn Clackamas County into a GOP strongho...   More

News Jefferson Smith is holding a 3 pm press conference in Terry Schrunk Plaza, presumably in response to today's WW report that he was cited in 1993 for misdemeanor assault in an incident involving a woman.

The conference was sched...   More

News Portland has picked a local bicycle-share company to run the city's long-awaited revamp of a public bike-rental program, even though the company has struggled to deliver a working system on time in other cities.
The Portland Bureau of Transportation today announced its choice of Alta Bicycle Share as its vendor finalist, with six months left until the city bike-share progra...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Brain-bending sci-fi loses its snap when treated like homework, but you won’t really understand Looper unless you prepare by watching a few episodes of Moonlighting. These...   More

News There’s a new media war opening up on an unlikely front in Washington County. The Oregonian is considering launching a paper in Forest Grove, population 22,000.
John Schrag, publisher of the Forest Grove News-Times, which    More

News Issuing a cease-and-desist order, the state Employee Relations Board has given Mayor Sam Adams 30 days to re-hire Portland Police Officer Ronald Frashour, who fatally shot unarmed 25-year-old Aaron Campbell in the back in 2010.The board's ruling says that the City of Portland violate...   More

Elections The Portland City Council voted unanimously Sept. 12 to fluoridate Portland’s water by mid-2014. Foes, seeking to refer the question...   More

Cover Story Judah Gold-Markel has trouble parking in front of his house these days.  He’s lived in his green bungalow on Southeast Sherman Street, two...   More